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yohaf-961112-thyroid-progesterone-and-diet — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview yohaf-961112-thyroid-progesterone-and-diet. The excerpt begins at 14:09 and runs for 1 minute 12 seconds.

So when we start to talk about being careful what you eat because it may inhibit your thyroid function the reason we're saying that is because even people who are testing normal for thyroid function but have cold hands and have below normal temperatures and maybe are just slightly low in thyroid function often also are estrogen dominant and this includes some men. As your thyroid goes down your estrogen comes up a very neat connection which is because your liver needs both protein and thyroid to get rid of estrogen and when your liver function decreases your estrogen automatically piles up. Okay just a quick ID for the show this is your own health and fitness I'm health integration specialist Lena Berman and I'm on the phone with biologist and I would say medical I'd like to call you a medical activist Raymond Peat who is a rare guest and a very important guest and we're talking about the relationship between a diet and the various hormones and steroids that exist in our bodies including thyroid and progesterone. We'll open up the phone lines maybe at 1230 I may actually extend the interview a little bit let's see